After posting the ‘AAA’ blog, a reader privately asked if I had a map, “Did I, in fact, ever get my own map?” Before Google Maps, almost everyone went to AAA. However, my first response came out of nowhere and… Read More ›
Month: April 2020
AAA
A friend discussed having difficulty getting several associates to get past their anger and fear of the other. Unable to comprehend how to heal them, I interjected, “It’s not your duty to resolve.” “Huh?” “Your responsibility is to be triple-A… Read More ›
Dressed-Up Isolation
After nearly a month in social isolation, a man yelled at his wife, saying he had enough of this bulls•••, and was off to work. If he got sick and died, then so be it. Economic livelihood was too big… Read More ›
Texture
If one song represented my ‘new normal’ during 2010, it would have to be “Sweet Surrender,” by John Denver. Sweet Surrender is a song of journey, a self-exploration. Lost and alone on some forgotten highway Traveled by many, remembered by… Read More ›
Mak’n It: Day-by-Day
I was on a conference call yesterday when a friend asked, “How come you’re so damn F•••king calm?” Fair question. Does anyone remember Y2K? You know, the event where the world was going to die. I lived in downtown Los Angeles… Read More ›
True Leadership
I once heard a pastor talk of a young woman completing her college application. As she compiled all the required documentation, she began answering questions. Her heart sank upon reading the question that asked, “Are you a leader?” Filled with… Read More ›
Its Not Illusion, It’s Friendship
In the past several years, I’ve only told two people of visits from Ms. K: my case manager and a close friend. And thus far, I’ve only mentioned my Parkinson’s diagnosis to the readers of this blog and my therapist…. Read More ›
In Memoriam: Jim and an Easter Message
Pope Francis offered a message of hope during his Good Friday message. “May the hearts of those who have enough be open to filling the empty hands of those who do not have the bare necessities.” “This year we are… Read More ›
Good Friday 2020
I happened to see Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s memorial to Charlotte Figi, a child with a catastrophic type of epilepsy who went on to inspire a CBD movement. Ms. Figi passed from complications to Coronavirus-like symptoms. I commented to myself about the… Read More ›
Sometimes the Crisis Makes the Leader
Kathryn Dill and Te-Ping Chen wrote a great article in The Wall Street Journal. ‘Sometimes the Crisis Makes the Leader’: Andrew Cuomo and Five Lessons on Leadership’ The lessons the want readers to understand are: Transparency; Lead and be a… Read More ›